Loretta Sanchez

Loretta L. Sanchez (7 January 1960-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 46) from 3 January 1997 to 3 January 2003 (succeeding Bon Dornan and preceding Dana Rohrabacher), from CA 47 from 3 January 2003 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Chris Cox and preceding Alan Lowenthal), and from CA 46 from 3 January 2013 to 3 January 2017 (succeeding Rohrabacher and preceding Lou Correa).

Biography
Loretta Sanchez was born in Lynwood, California in 1960, the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the sister of Congresswoman Linda Sanchez. She worked as a financial analyst for a defense contractor, and she entered politics in 1996 when she was elected to the US House of Representatives. Sanchez was a moderate Democratic Party member who was affiliated with the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrats (she represented a suburban conservative district in Orange County), but she voted in line with almost all of Nancy Pelosi's decisions. In 2016, she chose not run for re-election in the House and attempted to run for the US Senate, but she was defeated by Kamala Harris.